From Middle East Online:US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran Tuesday of sending Revolutionary Guard forces into Iraq to make trouble, and warned Tehran it was "an error in judgement."
"They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq, and we know it, and it is something that they will look back on as having been an error in judgement," he told reporters here.
Pressed to elaborate, Rumsfeld said the Iranians were putting "Quds force-type people," or Revolutionary Guard forces, into Iraq.
"I don't think we could consider them religious pilgrims," Rumsfeld said.
General Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said some improvised explosive devices and other weapons used in Iraq have been traced back to Iran.
"The most recent reports have to do with individuals crossing the border into Iraq," he told reporters.
Pace said he did not know whether the infiltrators had the backing of the Tehran government, nor could he say whether the flow of infiltrations is on the rise.
But Rumsfeld said that "of course" the Iranian government was behind them.
"The Iranian Revolutionary Guard doesn't go milling around willy-nilly, one would think," he said.
So, they are giving the terrorists armor piercing bombs to use. They are sending amateur terror wannabes as well as their trained operatives into Iraq. Is this enough to call an imminent threat, lefties? Could the UN possibly be moved enough to, I don't know, do something constructive for the first time in 2 or 3 decades? Hmm? Don't bet on it.
Rumsfeld Actually Reports, MSM should take notes
Rumsfeld has not been happy with the media joygasming over the possibility of civil war in Iraq, and their drumming up the sounds of civil war even as the violence they hvae been reporting has been largely exaggerated. From the same Middle East online article:
Rumsfeld spoke at a Pentagon press conference in which he played down the risk of a full-blown civil war while accusing the media of exaggerating the violence that followed the February 22 mosque attack.
"The steady stream of errors all seem to be of a nature to inflame the situation and to give heart to the terrorists and to discourage those who hope for success in Iraq," he said.
When pressed on whether he believed the media had fallen for a disinformation campaign, Rumsfeld said, "Oh, I can't go into people's minds. All I'm doing is reporting on what we've seen."
If only we got that kind of factual reporting without the innendo and spinning from the media, we might actually have a well informed electorate.
